Finch dive
Shoot enough pictures and sometimes you get lucky and come up with a real winner. I don't like to brag, but I think this is one of those times. I was walking this morning in very cold conditions, and the frigid air—it was barely in the teens—was making it hard to work the camera. When I spotted a flock of mixed songbirds, however, I rallied and willed my stiffened fingers to work. The critter I focused on, a winter-plumage Goldfinch—hard to believe that this drab bird will sport brilliant feathers come spring—was having no such trouble with its joints, and as I watched the bird through the lens, the finch, in a burst of anti-cold exuberance, leapt off a Multiflora Rose cane and dove through the air. I was happy to have caught the Goldfinch in action.